“I believe online spend could overtake TV within the next three to four years,” said Guy Phillipson, chief executive of the Internet Advertising Bureau, the trade association for the internet marketing industry.

A handy plugin has been released by VeriSign which implements the Extended Validation (EV) Certificate features available in Microsoft IE 7. – The address bar turns green and displays certificate owner and CA issuer information when the browser receives an EV certificate.

ICANN is considering adding new gTLDs (generic top-level domains like .com, .org etc) to the Internet from August 2008 and is seeking public input on its proposed development of a new process for creating, approving, and adding new gTLDs.